Another way to see what processes are running, but only for what is in your current shell or window, is with ps. With ps, the PID is the process identifier, TTY shows the Terminal window running the process, and CMD is the command that is running.

[euid123@cruntch3 ~]$ ps
   PID TTY          TIME CMD
 60966 pts/12   00:00:00 bash
 61012 pts/12   00:00:00 ps

Because the example was run in a bash environment, that appears as a line. If it were run in a C shell script, csh would appear.